Shakespeare Overview

Shakespeare was born in what town or city?

• London
• Stratford
• Snitterfield
• Oxford

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Who did Shakespeare marry?

• Judith Sadler 
• Susanna Hall
• Anne Hathaway
• Mary Queen of Scots

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Which of these plays was written by Shakespeare?

• Hamlet

• Macbeth

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

• All of them

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What type of plays did Shakespeare write?

• Tragedy

• Horror

• Comedy

• Historical

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Shakespeare was ...

• a playwright

• a poet

• an actor

• all of the above

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Tragedy 

• an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
• two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
• a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
• character who changes as a result of the story’s events

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Prologue 

• a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
• character who does not change much in the course of a story
• words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage
• an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud

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Sonnet 

• a group who says things at the same time
• fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
• the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
• a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different

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Comic Relief

• humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
  
• direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
• event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
• a speech by one character in a play

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A dramatic play that tells the story of a character who meets an untimely and unhappy death or downfall, often because of a specific character flaw or twist of fate.

• tragedy

• comedy

• verse

• prologue

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